marți, 18 octombrie 2011

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WHY CUTTING DOWN YOUR FAT INTAKE IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ASPECT TOTHIS DIET AND YOU GETTING HEALTHYSo far we’ve talked about what your body needs and how to get more of it. Now is thetime to switch gears and talk about what your body doesn’t need and what to consumeless of. The next 3 sections will probably blend together. Hopefully like the micronutrientssection, by the end of it you will have the point beaten permanently into yourhead.FAT. It’s the #1 enemy to health and maintaining a healthy weight. It stores toxins, putsan excess load on your system, makes your organs work harder which ages youquicker and leaves you more susceptible to sickness and disease. That was a mouthfulright? So is fat. Our bodies are very efficient at storing fat as I just went over.Unfortunately, this also means that our bodies are efficient at storing toxins too.Cooking, especially the way we cook in the West changes the chemical structures of thefat. High heat damages these fragile oils and changes them into trans fats, high in freeradicals which tear our body apart on a cellular level. In addition, many processedfoods contain hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated oils to help preserve them. Theseoils are toxic to our bodies as well.Fat is not inherently bad though. In fact we need it to be healthy, but only in smallamounts. The food that nature provides us with is not very high in fat. Therefore, whywould a high fat diet be good for us? Only in an extreme environment where the basicrules of survival don’t apply like the Inuit are faced with in the Arctic. I went over thebasics of fat earlier. Just to recap, we need all types of fat but our primary goal forlosing weight and getting healthier will be to begin correcting the imbalance of omega 3fatty acids in relation to omega 6 fatty acids.Fat is used to build new cells in addition to being a source of energy. Once again, withyour best interests at heart, I will give you the relevant information to take action. Thereare plenty of books and articles out there that can give you the full rundown on fat. Tobe honest, I’ve already given you more useful information on fat than most of thosebooks ever will.Omega 3 fatty acids are some of the most important parts of our diets. Why? Well the30-60 trillion cells that our body is made of all need Omega 3 fatty acids. They help toline the cell walls during cell construction which makes the membrane more permeableand able to receive the proper nutrients. (24)Additionally, your brain is mostly fat, 60%comprising of DHA, an essential Omega 3 fatty acid. If your diet doesn’t containenough, then you have tens of trillions of cells that are unhealthy and unable to operateat full capacity. The amount of essential fatty acids our body needs to build healthy cellsand maintain normal functioning is relatively small to the tune of a couple grams of fateach day.A quick aside. Given you now know that the brain is about 60% DHA, which is anOmega 3 essential fatty acid consider this: A pregnant woman (while nursing also) notonly has to nourish her brain, but that of a growing baby inside her. Therefore, IHIGHLY recommend that if you or anyone you know is ever pregnant to advise them ofOmega 3 supplementation. The most concentrated source of safe DHA is a purified fishoil. OK, back to business.Some organs like your skin replace cells every few days. Others, like your liver orbones may take a few months to a year. This means that all those times you gotmotivated and cleaned up your diet for a month or two didn’t really do much for yourwhole-body health. Of course, doing something is better than doing nothing, but to thinkthat a month or two of “better” eating really made that much difference is likely incorrect.That’s why getting healthy and losing weight is truly a lifestyle change. To change yourbody significantly, you need to change your life. A year from now the cells in your bodywill be completely different ones than today. It’s your choice: Do you want those cells tobe healthy ones or unhealthy ones?So yes, fat is essential, but in fact we need very little of it compared with other nutrients.I will go into it more later, but a low fat diet with exercise encourages even more fat lossbecause of the way our body utilizes fat for energy. Remember what you’ve learnedabout it so far: It contains 9 calories per gram. We need essential fatty acids to build abrand new body, but only in modest amounts. Our bodies are very efficient at storingfat, and thus storing toxins.

THE FUNDAMENTALS OF METABOLISMI could just tell you that in order to get healthy and lose weight eat less fat and refinedfoods. Yea, that makes sense, but I want to take a moment to explain how yourmetabolism actually works. Once again, it’s more important you know why to makechanges over what changes to make. The motivation must come from an emotionalresponse within yourself. Being told what to do by others will not take you as far astelling yourself with conviction.(14)The Food and Agriculture Organization for the United Nations wrote a very nice anddescriptive article explaining the basics of how food is metabolized and in what order.Here is how it works:Alcohol is burned first because we don’t store it and it’s energy intensive to convert it tofat. Amino acids are next because we don’t store those either. Next we utilize thecarbohydrates because we can only store a very small amount of those in our liver andmuscle. The conversion of carbohydrate into fat is energetically expensive (your bodydoesn’t want to do this). Lastly, fat is burned, utilized or likely stored as it is very easilystored at 96-98% efficiency. In other words, 96-98 calories of fat for every 100consumed can be easily stored .Reference that last paragraph as many times as you need to for continuous motivation.For as many times throughout the day as we are subjected to eating fat, it’s no wonderAmericans and those eating the Western diet are overweight and unhealthy.Let me break it down for you real quick. In an ideal world, our body would prefer thatwe consume little alcohol, not too much protein, mostly carbs and a little fat. Carbs andfat are what our body can store which is why alcohol and protein are burned first. Littletip: don’t eat a lot if you’re drinking, especially high fat foods.Carbohydrates (glucose) are what our body utilizes for energy. Excess carbs areconverted to fat and stored in fat tissue. The conversion takes a bit of energy, and onlyaround 2/3 of the original carbohydrate calories are stored as fat. Fat on the other handis so easy for our body to store that it utilizes fat last. If our body needs to access fat forenergy, remember that it converts it to glycogen in the liver to be released into the bloodas glucose.One more thing which I will go over after the next section is the utilization of aminoacids. They were second in line for being utilized for digestion because our body can’tstore them. However, our body “utilizing” them implies that they’ve been digested. Inthe case of meat and some dairy products that are body doesn’t digest efficiently, wedon’t utilize what we can’t digest. Therefore, our body will use what amino acids areavailable to us and move on to carbohydrates next. This leaves partially digested meatsitting in our systems, slowly making its way through. Maybe this is why colon cancersare so common...

HOW JUICING CAN BE AN INTEGRAL PART OF GETTING NUTRIENTSDoes anyone else remember Jack LaLane in the 80’s and 90’s blasting the airwaveswith his juicers and talking about how great it is for you health? Just because we don’tsee the infomercials anymore doesn’t mean that juicing isn’t good for us. In fact, juicingis the old fad that can be the start of a new you.Juicing is not rocket science. Basically, there are two types of machines: one that has ahigh speed blade that shreds the fruit or vegetable into tiny particles and then “spins”them around at a high speed to extract the juice. The other kind of juicers shred biggerpieces from the food and then use a slower “press the juice out” type of method.When it comes to buying a juicer I don’t think it’s a big deal which kind you go with.There are many different price tiers from $40-$400. I don’t advocate anything inparticular. When it comes to getting healthy quicker and losing more weight, myfeelings are to spend more money on good food and whole food supplements. Ipersonally use an $80 juicer that I got for $35 on a heck of a deal from Marshall’s orKohl’s(I remember the price more so than where I bought it). It extracts a lot of juice, ispretty easy to clean and I use it probably 5 times a week. One important thing toconsider when juicing food is that oxygen is the enemy. Vitamins are sensitive to airand the juice loses some of its nutritional value when exposed to air after a few minutes,so drinking the juice right away after you make it is important for maximum benefit.So why juice? Juicing is so important with the WWD because it helps you get morenutrients. If our goal is to get you more nutrients so your body can repair, detoxify anddrop fat then juicing is an integral part of the solution. Why not take vitamins then if thegoal is to get more nutrients? Like I said before, I do take a daily effervescent multivitamin,BUT the goal is to get more nutrients. As previously revealed, we don’t knowhow many nutrients are in plants that we don’t even know about. When it comes totaking a vitamin made in a lab you are losing out on all those phytochemicals that are soimportant to your health.Try eating a pound of carrots, 6 stalks of celery, a cucumber and a whole grapefruit inone sitting. Yea, it can be done but that is a tall task. In addition it will make you full forquite a while and take a lot of time to eat that much. Lastly, if you made a meal out offood like that, you would get tons of vitamins, minerals and other micro-nutrients but notmuch in the form of protein or the essential fatty acids. That’s why juicing is essential tothis diet. You get more micro-nutrients while still having room in your stomach to get thenecessary macro-nutrients.I specifically use this kind of juicing method for myself to stay healthy and have tons ofenergy. If eating fresh, nutrient-dense food is good, eating fresh, nutrient-dense foodwith the extra concentrated nutrient addition of juice is better! If you are reading thisbook without the desire to lose weight, but simply to become healthier and reduce yourrisk of cancer and disease, juicing is a powerful solution.There’s another way of juicing to achieve fast and healthy weight loss. It is how I juice ifI am cleansing or detoxifying which is precisely what you can do when trying to loseweight. Since you can consume many more nutrients in liquid form than eating them,it’s a great opportunity to pump your body full of these cleansing, body repairingwonders. Fresh juice along with a super shakes and super smoothies can get youthrough most of your day without consuming many calories which will help you melt thefat off your body, detoxify and stay healthy even when those around you get sick.Essentially what juicing does is give you the water and nutrients while removing the bulkmatter which largely consists of fiber. Typically, the first objection to juicing is, “Ithought that fiber was good and necessary, so why juice and strip all that fiber away?Simply put, the nutrients are more necessary than the fiber. You generally need fiber tohelp push the bulk matter through, but with juicing you are ingesting liquid nutrition thatdoesn’t really need digesting. Juicing is like taking the best the plant has to offer andinjecting it straight into your blood stream. This gives those valuable nutrients the bestchance to get to organs quickly where they can begin the repair process to set thingsstraight.Additionally, you can juice parts of food that you wouldn’t typically eat. (11)For instance,there are cancer fighting compounds that were recently discovered in the skin ofgrapefruit. I don’t know anyone who eats the skins of grapefruit, oranges or other citrusfruits. There are possible tens of thousands of compounds in edible foods that wehaven’t even discovered yet. Who knows what kind of nutritional bounty you’reingesting when you juice your favorite foods skin and all.To summarize, juicing fruits and vegetables can provide you with valuable nutrients inhigher quantities than you would normally be able to consume. It will be one of themost important elements of you losing weight faster and safer than with traditional diets.Juicing will help you detoxify faster and build your strength for a life-long battle againstcarcinogenic chemicals that exist in every part of the world we live in.